20 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1964 



include 547 bird skins, 26 skeletons, 1 egg, and 1 nest from Panama, 

 received through Dr. Alexander Wetniore ; 791 bird skins, 85 skeletons, 

 and 1 nest from North America, by transfer from the Fish and Wild- 

 life Service; 301 bird skins from Formosa, by transfer from the De- 

 partment of Defense, Department of the Navy, U.S. Naval Medical 

 Research Unit No. 2, through Dr. E. E. Kuntz ; 190 bird skins from 

 North Borneo, gift of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum through Dr. 

 J. L. Gressitt; 175 bird skins from West Pakistan, gift from Bucknell 

 University through Dr. Roy C. Tasker; 156 alcoholic specimens of 

 birds from Prof. D. S. Rabor, Silliman University, Dumaguete City, 

 Negros Oriental, Philippines; and 52 original watercolor paintings 

 executed as illustrations for F. Salomonson's "The Birds of Green- 

 land" by deposit from the artist, Aage Gitz-Johansen, Trorod, Den- 

 mark, through Dr. Carl Christensen, Cultural Counselor, Embassy 

 of Denmark. 



The division of reptiles and amphibians accessioned 2,639 specimens. 

 Outstanding among these are 58 West Indian lizards and frogs, in- 

 cluding paratypes of 13 new species and subspecies from Dr. Albert 

 Schwartz of Miami, Fla.; 213 reptiles and amphibians from Mada- 

 gascar collected by field parties under the direction of Dr. H. W. Setzer 

 of the division of mammals; and 219 reptiles and amphibians from 

 Darien, Panama, collected by Dr. Charles O. Handley, Jr., also of the 

 division of mammals. 



Among the largest accessions made in the division of fishes during 

 the year were 5,777 specimens received by transfer from the U.S. Fish 

 and Wildlife Service, mostly through the efforts of Dr. Daniel Cohen, 

 Harvey R. Bullis, Jr., Willis King, J. H. Finucane, and P. J. Struh- 

 saker; a gift of 3,000 specimens of Panamanian fishes from Horace 

 Loftin, Florida State University; aiid through exchange, 6,020 Vir- 

 ginia fishes from Dr. Robert Ross, Virginia Polyteclmic Institute. 

 Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod, T. F. H. Publications, Inc., Jersey City, N.J., 

 donated 443 South American fishes and aided in securing 18 additional 

 ones. Especially important acquisitions are holotypic and paratypic 

 specimens received from Dr. Jacques R. Gery, Dordogne, France ; Dr. 

 Edward C. Raney, Cornell University ; Dr. John E. Randall, Univer- 

 sity of Puerto Rico ; Dr. Eugenia Clark, Cape Haze Marine Labora- 

 tory; Wayne J. Baldwin, University of California; Dr. C. Lindsey, 

 University of British Columbia ; Dr. J. L. B. Smith, Rhodes Univer- 

 sity, Grahamstown, South Africa; and Dr. Stanley Weitzman, asso- 

 ciate curator in the division of fishes. The addition of 47 shark speci- 

 mens, some undescribed and others representing species not previously 

 contained in the national collections, was made by the following: 

 Dr. J. C. Briggs, University of Texas; H. Heyamoto and Susumii 

 Kato, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Donald Goff, Rehoboth Beach, 



